Yossarian wrote:
where do you sign up to become one of these messageboard PR guys? how much does it pay?

It's not they pay that should worry you. It's what it costs - a cold, dank blackness at the very pit of your soul, the undisguised revulsion of forumites the world over and the knowledge that your life is petty and meaningless with nothing to look forward to other than posting more sad messages pretending to love a game which you'll never play and which you couldn't care less about anyway. As the years pass the initial fun of pretending to be a semi-literate 14 year old will wear off and start to eat away at your soul. And there you'll be... tapping away messages with all the joy and passion of an aging whore lying on her back wondering where the hell it all went wrong.

Five and a half quid an hour and the odd free t shirt from electronic arts doesn't really compensate does it?

Still, i don't reckon alexc is a plant. I reckon he's just an overexcited little boy. Bless.

i dont want to get a 360 just yet but id like to get this for pc. any idea or predictions of required specs?

heres what i have: p4 3ghz, 1 gb ram, radeon xt 128mb.

hows that sound? if anyone could recommend a part to upgrade id appreciate it

I wouldn't be too worried about specs. SS2 ran very well on low end PC's and your specs are oke.

Yeah, but that's because SS2 used Looking Glass's Dark engine, which was very scaleable. Given that Bioshock is being developed with next gen systems in mind, I'd be surprised if it didn't need a pretty good PC to run.

That said, ratso's PC spec isn't bad at all - similar to mine, in fact - and about the only thing he may really want to update is the RAM. Obviously a new graphics card would help, but I suspect, given his spec, that he's limited to an AGP slot like I am.

Given that Bioshock isn't likely to be released until well into next year, you may well find that getting a 360 then would be a good idea, rather than upgrading your PC. In fact by then there's going to be a bunch of second and third generation games available which really are going to make the 360 an even better system to own.